On 11/22/16 7:36 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:

  * random _generators_, i.e. sources of uniformly distributed random bits:

    - random _engines_ (seedable, pseudo-random algorithms)

    - random _devices_ (non-deterministic sources of uniformly
distributed bits)

  * random _distributions_, which transform uniformly-distributed random
bits
    into variates with some other type and distribution

    - note _this includes uniformly-distributed integers_!

    - also uniformly-distributed floats, enums, etc.

    - and also non-uniform distributions

  * random _algorithms_, i.e. algorithms in the sense of std.random, but
where
    their popFront() includes random decision-making

    - randomCover, randomSample, etc.

Yah, I think that would be nice. -- Andrei

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